Question

I have an activity with the following structure

/////////////////////
/      Header       /
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/      Content      /



/////////////////////
/      Footer       /
/////////////////////

the content part open a fragment in a new Activity with the same design , what I want to do is to make this fragment transparent to be able to show the fragment in the previous activity

I have tried this line of code in the second activity but it gives me a black background

getWindow().setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(Color.TRANSPARENT));

can anyone help please ?

Answer 1

Android activities are not transparent by default, you can do so by putting this theme in the manifest for the activity you are wanting to make transparent:

<activity
        android:name="com.blah.example"
        android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Translucent.NoTitleBar" >
</activity>